February | 2018 | SharePoint Thoughts

I’ve been working with a client on an issue they had. A user had upgraded his Office suite to Office Home & Business 2016, after the upgrade, something with OneDrive For Business didn’t seem right. Documents stopped syncing, and stuff weren’t working as expected.

When checking OneDrive For Business, it was gone off the computer, so by following this KB article, you need to download OneDrive for business again and do the installation. You do this by following the points in the article, and having the .txt file in place for installation. Everything would seem to work fine, but you may encounter that it would stay for too long with no result. What you might want to do is change the .txt file, so replace the attribute Level=”None” to Level=”Full”. This way, if the command encounters any issue, it would really show that exact error or warnings.

For me what happened, is it shown incompatibility with what I was trying to install, and the system type. The default value in the .txt file for system type is “32” as shown in the “OfficeClientEdition” attribute, whereas the user was using 64-bit system. So change this value to “64” and you should be good to go.

At times, you want to hide something that’s rendered by default in SharePoint, for example some of the ribbon’s controls rendered right away with the page. I’ve seen some people going with the way of hiding the whole “New” group in a document library in order to prevent user from using the upload or new folder options.

For the new folder, everyone knows it can be easily disabled from the library’s settings, but for the Upload button in the ribbon, you can use pure CSS to do so, but you will need to find the right selector, and use it right. We all know how to use developer tools to pick the right css classes, so as can be seen below:

So you might be tempted to do something like this:

#Ribbon.Documents.New.AddDocument-Large{ display: none; }

1	#Ribbon.Documents.New.AddDocument-Large{ display: none; }

And.. that won’t work, you might be tempted as well to add !important to the end to force it to apply, but again.. it won’t work. It’s because CSS considers the dot character as part of the css itself to identify a class, and it won’t understand it’s part of the ID. In this case, you need to use escaping characters in CSS which is the backslash!

So your code should look like this:

#Ribbon\.Documents\.New\.AddDocument-Large{
display: none;
}

#Ribbon\.Documents\.New\.AddDocument-Large{

display: none;

}

Now you should end up with something similar to this:

Hope this will quickly help someone out there!

SharePoint Thoughts

By Mohamed Derhalli

Month: February 2018

ODFB & “Office Home & Business 2016” Issue!

Hide Upload Button + CSS Tip!